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THE TOURIST.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1833.

negroes to their former state of slavery. This
attempt was resisted on the part of the negroes,
and it was not till after a severe struggle, and
dreadful slaughter, that they were again
brought under the power of the cart-whip.
The accounts from the island immediately

THE SAFETY OF IMMEDIATE EMAN- preceding this event were most satisfactory.

CIPATION.
No. IV.

GUADALOUPE.

In prosecution of the design of our former articles under this head, we extract the following account of the Island of Guadaloupe, from the Report of the late Committee of the House of Lords. It is supplied by T. F. Buxton, Esq., and stands supported by an ample body of documentary evidence, which our limits will not allow us to insert. It may be found by referring to the Report, from p. 924. We esteem the following statement more conclusive to our point than any thing we could offer, and shall, therefore, insert it without note or comment.

in the legal possession of their personal liberty, to their former bondage, an object the attainment of which is said to have required the sacrifice of nearly 20,000 negro lives.

to the slaves themselves.

The result, unfortunate as it was, does not prove the unfitness of the slaves of Guadaloupe for the liberty that had been granted to them; The reports of the commissioners of different and which, as we have seen, was granted under cantons to the local government speak of the circumstances of public disturbance particutranquillity which reigned in the agricultural larly unfavourable to their quiet enjoyment of districts, and on the plantations; and the go- its blessings. When all those circumstances vernment, on the other hand, in its circular are taken into the view of emancipation, it is addresses to the commissioners, dwell upon it impossible not to feel that the case of Guadamost anxiously and sedulously, as an essential loupe is so far from justifying the anticipapart of their duties, that, while they enforce tions of their opponents, that it furnishes an order and regularity among the labouring undeniable confirmation of the general proclasses, they should maintain their just rights, position maintained by the abolitionists, that and secure to them the full measure of the an act of emancipation by the supreme goremuneration to which they were entitled for vernment in quiet and peaceful times, accomtheir labours, punishing, with exemplary seve-panied by such precautionary measures as rity, proprietors who should be guilty of any would be obviously expedient, and not refailure in this respect, or of any other conduct sisted, but acquiesced in, by the masters, towards the labourers which should be incon- might be carried into complete effect without sistent with the claims of humanity and jus- the slightest danger to the public tranquillity, tice. The regulations by which the rights and with the most unquestionable advantage and privileges of the labourers were guarded were ordered, by the law, to be translated into the Creole dialect, to be posted up in conspicuous places, and to be read and explained once a month on every estate. We have before us a letter addressed by the Supreme Council of the colony, in February, 1802, to the Commissary Valluet of the Canton de Deshayes, to this effect :-" We have received, Citizen Commissary, your letter of the 6th instant, with the different returns relating to the payment of their fourth to the cultivators. We perceive, with pleasure, that you have devoted your attention to this most essential branch of your administration. It is in exercising this justice towards the men whose sweat is the source both of our private and public wealth that you can alone acquire a right to exert your authority to enforce upon them the due performance of their duties. Continue, Citizen Commissary, to maintain that order in your canton which now reigns universally throughout the colony. We shall have the satisfaction of having given an example which will prove that all classes of people may live in perfect harmony with each other under an administration which secures justice to all classes."

THE JAGUAR.

THIS is an American species of the felis. genus It grows to the size of the wolf, or rather larger, and inhabits the hotter parts of South America. Its disposition and habits seem to have been somewhat misrepresented by some eminent naturalists, especially by Buffon, who, it appears probable, confounded it with the ocelot, a much smaller and less formidable animal.

Guadaloupe, in common with all the colonial possessions of France, partook of the convulsions with which the revolution of 1792 so violently agitated the mother country; and in that colony the contests of the partisans of royalism and democracy, and those of the white and coloured colonists, were carried on with a fury which could not fail to excite the slaves, who from time to time were called in to aid the contending parties. No insurrection, however, properly servile, followed; and the slaves who were not converted into combatants continued their usual labours. In February, 1794, the French Convention passed a decree giving liberty to the slaves in all the colonies of France. This decree was carried into effect in Guadaloupe, under certain local regulations called La Police Rurale, which was administered, in the different districts of the island, by commissioners appointed by the government. By these regulations the labourers were entitled to a fourth part of the produce of the estate which they were employed in cultivating, independently of their food, In the Moniteur of 19 Germinal, an 10, which was wholly furnished from the estate. (April, 1802), there is inserted a communicaHe describes it as The only deductions to which this fourth part tion from Guadaloupe, dated in the preceding destructive to other quadrupeds, but as was liable, before it was divided in fixed pro- February, stating that "all was perfectly tran- cowardly and flying at the approach of portions among the labourers, were the ex-quil in that colony, and that, although there man. This, however, is only true of such pences of a medical attendant and medicines, existed some anxieties (anxieties which appear and of packages for their own share of the to have been caused solely by the apprehen- colonies, where their natural ferocity has as have been observed near European produce. All other expences of every kind, sions excited among the negroes by the news including taxes, were to be defrayed from the of the peace of Amiens, lest France should atbeen somewhat modified. Humboldt other three-fourths. The shares of labourers tempt to restore slavery in Guadaloupe), yet mentions many instances of the ferocious absenting themselves from labour were to be every thing promised the peaceable re-estab- courage of the jaguar; amongst others reduced in proportion to the length of their lishment of lawful authority" (meaning, doubt- the following:-An animal of this species absence, and the sums thus deducted were to less, the restoration of slavery and the cart- had seized a horse belonging to a farm in be added to the shares of those who had la- whip). "Cultivation," the writer adds, "has the province of Cumana, and dragged it boured regularly. Under these regulations, never been discontinued; and although the a considerable distance. "The groans agriculture appears to have flourished, after a last sugar-crop happened to be not very provigorous government had repressed the furious ductive, yet there is now considerable produce of the dying horse," says Humboldt, intestine commotions among the different poli- in hand, and the next sugar-crop is likely to" awoke the slaves of the farm, who went tical parties of whites, and between the whites be large." and the free people of colour; and in April, 1801, we have an enumeration of the plantations then under cultivation, amounting to 390 of sugar, 1,355 of coffee, and 328 of cotton, besides twenty-five pasture or grass farms. In the succeeding year, on the peace of Amiens, a powerful French force was sent to take possession of Guadaloupe, and to reduce the

In about two months from the date of this communication a powerful French force, under Richepanse, disembarked in Guadaloupe; and, in a short time, by the indiscriminate massacre of all who opposed his purpose, he reduced the whole body of the surviving negroes, whom the law of 1794 had emancipated, and who, during the intermediate eight years, had been

out armed with lances and cutlasses. The animal continued on its prey, awaited their approach with firmness, and fell only after a long and obstinate resist-R ance. This fact, and a great many others, verified on the spot, prove that the great jaguar of Terra Firma, like the jaguaret of Paraguay, and the real tiger

of Asia, does not flee from man when he is dared to close combat, and when he is not alarmed by the great number of his assailants. Naturalists are now agreed that Buffon was entirely mistaken with respect to the largest of the feline genus in America. What that celebrated writer says of the cowardly tigers of the New Continent relates to the small ocelots; and we shall shortly see that, on the Oronoko, the real jaguar of South America sometimes leaps into the water to attack the

Indians in their canoes."

This animal, like the tiger, of which it bears the most distinguishing features,

plunges its head into the body of its victim, and sucks out the blood before it devours it. It generally lies in ambush near the side of rivers, and there is sometimes seen a singular combat between it and the crocodile. When the jaguar comes to drink, the crocodile, ready to seize any animal that approaches, raises its head out of the water, upon which the jaguar darts his talons into the eyes (the only vulnerable part) of the reptile. The latter instantly dives to the bottom, dragging his enemy with him, where both generally perish together.

THE JEWEL APARTMENT, TOWER OF LONDON. THE above represents the Tower in which have long been deposited the insignia of England. One of the most remarkable occurrences connected with this place is the attempt to steal the crown in the reign of Charles II. The following notices of that event are taken from Britton and Brayley's History of the Tower :

inspected by the public generally. The daring attempt made by Blood to steal the crown is one of the most extraordinary incidents that ever happened within these walls; and, although the circumstances connected with this desperate attempt have been frequently detailed, no account of the Tower can be deemed complete without again briefly reciting them.

During the interregnum, the emoluments attached to the keeping of the regalia were enjoyed by Sir Henry Mildmay; but on his attainder, soon after the restoration of Charles II., the office was conferred upon Sir Gilbert Talbot; when, at the instance of the Lord Chancellor Hyde, many of the perquisites were either abolished, or came into other hands. Notwithstanding those deductions, the pecuniary advantages, in the same reign, amounted to £1300 annually. Since that period, all the duties and perquisites attached to the custody of the regalia have been either abolished, or have merged into the office of the Lord Chamberlain.

Shortly after the appointment of Sir Gilbert Talbot, and in consequence of the above-mentioned reduction in the official perquisites, the regalia in the Tower was first allowed to be

After Sir G. Talbot had been appointed master of the jewel-house, he assigned the profits which arose from exhibiting the regalia to an old confidential servant of his father, named Talbot Edwards, who was still keeper at the time of the concerted robbery.

About three weeks prior to his attempt, Blood, a disbanded officer of the Protectorate, went to the Tower in the habit of a parson, "with a long cloak, cassock, and canonical girdle," accompanied by a woman whom he called his wife; his real wife being then in Lancashire. The lady requested to see the crown, and her wish having been gratified, she feigned "a qualm upon her stomach," and Mrs. Edwards, after giving her some spirits at her husband's request, courteously invited her to repose herself upon a bed. She soon recovered; and, at their departure, they seemed very thankful for this civility.

After an interval of a few days, Blood returned, and gave Mrs. Edwards four pair of

white gloves, as a present from his pretended wife. At a subsequent visit he told her that his wife could discourse of nothing but the kindness of those good people of the Tower; and that she had long studied, and at last bethought her, of a handsome way of requital.

"You have," quoth he, "a pretty gentlewoman to your daughter, and I have a young nephew, who hath two or three hundred a year in land, and is at my disposal. If your daughter be free, and you approve it, I will bring him here to see her, and we will endeavour to make it a match." This was readily assented to by old Mr. Edwards, who invited the disguised ruffian to dine with him on that day; the invitation was willingly accepted, and Blood, taking upon him to say grace, performed it with great seeming devotion, concluding his long-winded oration with a prayer for the king, queen, and royal family.

After dinner, he went up to see the rooms, and seeing a handsome case of pistols hang there, expressed a great desire to buy them to present to a young lord who was his neighbour; but this was merely a pretence, by which he thought to disarm the house, and thus execute his design with less danger. At his departure, which was with a canonical benediction of the good company, he appointed a day and hour for introducing his young nephew to his future bride; and as he wished, he said, to bring two friends with him, to see the regalia, who were to leave town early on that morning, the hour was fixed at about seven o'clock.

On the appointed morning (viz. May 9th, 1671), the old man had got up ready to receive his guest, and the daughter had put herself into her best dress to entertain her gallant, when, behold, parson Blood, with three more, came to the jewel-house, all armed with rapier blades in their canes, and every one a dagger, and a pair of pocket pistols. Two of his companions entered in with him, and a third stayed at the door, it seems, for a watch.

Blood told Mr. Edwards that they would not go up stairs until his wife came, and desired him to show his friends the crown to pass the time till then. This was complied with; but no sooner had they entered the room where the crown was kept, and the door, as usual, been shut, than they threw a cloak over the old man's head, and clapped a gag into his mouth, which was a great plug of wood, with a small hole in the middle to take breath at; this was tied with a waxed leather, which went round his neck. At the same time they fastened an iron hook to his nose, that no sound might pass from him that way either.

Thus secured, they told him that their resolution was to have the crown, globe, and sceptre; and, if he would quietly submit to it, they would spare his life, otherwise he was to expect no mercy. Notwithstanding this threat, he forced himself to make all the noise that possibly he could, to be heard above; they then knocked him down with a wooden mallet, and told him, that if yet he would lie quiet, they would spare his life, but if not, upon his next attempt to discover them, they would kill him, and pointed three daggers at his breast. Mr. Edwards, however, by his own account, was not yet intimidated, but strained himself to make the greater noise. In consequence, they gave him nine or ten strokes more upon the head with the mallet (for so many bruises were found upon the skull), and stabbed him into the belly. This ferocious treatment occasioned the old man, now almost eighty years of age, to swoon; and he lay some time in so senseless a condition, that one of the mis

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creants said, "He is dead, I'll warrant him." Edwards, who had come a little to himself, heard his words, and, conceiving it best to be thought so, lay quietly.

The rich prize was now within the villains' grasp, and one of them, named Parrot, put the orb into his breeches; Blood held the crown under his cloak; and the third was proceeding to file the sceptre in two, in order that it might be put into a bag, because too long to carry, when their proceedings were interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a son of Mr. Edwards, from Flanders, who, having first spoken to the person who stood on the watch at the door, went up stairs to salute his relations. Seizing the opportunity, the ruffians instantly hasted away with the crown and orb, leaving the sceptre unfiled.

swim; that the cause of this resolution, in
himself and others, was, his majesty's severity
over the consciences of the godly, in suppress-
ing the freedom of their religious assemblies;
but that, when he had taken his stand among
the reeds for that purpose, his heart was
checked by an awe of majesty; which made
him not only to relent himself, but likewise to
divert his associates from their design.

When further questioned, as to those asso-
ciates, he replied, that he would never betray
a friend's life, nor ever deny a guilt in defence
of his own. At the same time he told the
king, that he knew these confessions had laid
him open to the utmost rigour of the law;
but that there were hundreds of his friends,
yet undiscovered, who were all bound, by the
indispensable oaths of conspirators, to revenge
each other's death upon those who should
bring them to justice; which would expose
his majesty, and all his ministers, to the daily
fear and expectation of a massacre. But, on
the other side, if his majesty would spare the
lives of a few, he might oblige the hearts of
many; who, as they had been seen to do
daring mischief, would be as bold, if received
into pardon and favour, to perform eminent
services for the crown.

The old keeper now raised himself, and, freeing his mouth from the gag, cried, "Treason!-murder!" which being heard by his daughter, she rushed out of doors and reiterated the cry, with the addition, “The crown is stolen !" The alarm being thus given, young Edwards and Captain Beckman, his brother-in-law, pursued the robbers, who were advanced beyond the main guard [at the White Tower], and were hastening towards the draw-bridge. Here the Warder put him- After this examination, Blood and his acself in posture to stop them; but, on Blood complices were remanded to the Tower, there firing a pistol at him, he fell, although unhurt, to be kept as close prisoners; but, to the surand the thieves got safe to the little Ward-prise of the nation, they were all subsequently house Gate, where one Sill, who had been a soldier under Cromwell, stood sentinel; but he offering no opposition, they passed over the draw-bridge, and through the outward gate upon the wharf. Horses were stationed for them at St. Katharine's Gate, called the Iron Gate, and, as they ran that way, they raised the cry of" Stop the rogues!" by which device they proceeded, unopposed, until overtaken by Captain Beckman, at whose head Blood discharged his second pistol; but the captain avoided the shot by stooping down, and immediately seized the ruffian. The crown was still beneath his cloak; and, although every chance of escape was now over, he struggled vigorously to retain his prey; and, when it was wrested from him, said, "It was a gallant attempt, howsoever unsuccessful; for it was for

a crown!"

pardoned and released. Blood himself had
landed property granted to him, in Ireland, to
the amount of £500 per annum; and was
likewise admitted into all the privacy and inti
macy of the court, in which he industriously
employed his influence, and became a most
successful solicitor in others' behalf; but many
gentlemen courted his acquaintance as the
Indians pray to the devils, that they may not
hurt them.

CHAMOIS HUNTING.

CHAMOIS are very fearful, certainly not without sufficient cause; and their sense of smell and sight being most acute, it is extremely difficult to approach them within the range of a shot. They are sometimes hunted with dogs, but oftener without, as dogs drive In this "robustious struggle" a large pearl, a them away to places where it is difficult to fair diamond, and a number of smaller stones, follow them. When a dog is used, he is to be were bulged from the crown; but both the led silently to the track, which he will never former, and several of the latter, were subse-afterwards lose, the scent being very strong. quently picked up and restored; the ballas ruby, which had been broken off the sceptre, was found in Parrot's pocket, so that nothing of considerable value was eventually lost. Parrot (who had been a silk-dyer in Thames Street, and afterwards a lieutenant in the parliament's service) was stopped by a servant; and Hunt, Blood's son-in-law, who had been waiting with the horses, was soon afterwards seized, together with two others of the party.

The attempted robbery was immediately made known to the king, who commanded that the two persons first seized, and who had been lodged in the White Tower, should be examined in his own presence at Whitehall. This circumstance is supposed to have saved them from the gallows.

During his examination, Blood behaved with the most unblushing effrontery. He not only acknowledged having been the leader in an atrocious attempt upon the life of the Duke of Ormond (whom he had intended to hang at Tyburn), but also avowed that he had been engaged to kill his majesty himself, with a carbine, from among the reeds, by the Thames' side, above Battersea, where he often went to

The hunter, in the meantime, chooses a proper
station to lay in wait for the game-some
narrow pass through which its flight will most
likely be directed.

More frequently the hunter follows his dog,
with which he easily keeps pace by taking a
straighter direction, but calls him back in
about an hour, when he judges the chamois to
be a good deal exhausted, and inclined to lie
down to rest; it is then approached with less
difficulty. An old male will frequently turn
against the dog when pursued, and, while
keeping him at bay, allows the hunter to ap-
proach very near.

generally find a luegi (as it is called) ready prepared-two stones standing up on end, with sufficient space between them to see through without being seen; there one of the hunters creeps, unperceived, without his gun, and, carefully observing every way with his spy-glass, directs his companions by signs.

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The utmost circumspection and patience are requisite on the part of the hunter when approaching his game; a windward situation would infallibly betray him by the scent; he creeps on from one hiding rock to another, with his shirt over his clothes, and lies motionless in the snow, often for half an hour together, when the herd appears alarmed and near taking flight. Whenever he is near enough to distinguish the bending of the horns, that is, about the distance of 200 or 250 steps, he takes aim; but if, at the moment of raising his piece, the chamois should look towards him, he must remain perfectly still the least motion would put them to flight before he could fire, and he is too far to risk a shot otherwise than at rest. In taking aim, he endeavours to pick out the darkest coat, which is always the fattest animal; this darkness is only comparative, for the colour of the animal varies continually, between light bay in summer, and dark brown, or even black, in winter. Accustomed as the chamois are to frequent and loud detonations among the glaciers, they do not mind the report of the arms so much as the smell of gunpowder, or the sight of a man; there are instances of the hunter having time to load again, and fire a second time, after missing the first, if not seen. No one but a sportsman can understand the joy of him who, after so much toil, sees his prey fall; with shouts of savage triumph he springs to seize it, up to his knees in snow, dispatches the victim if he finds him not quite dead, and often swallows a draught of warm blood, deemed a specific against giddiness. He then guts the beast to lessen its weight, ties the feet together, and then proceeds down the mountain, much lighter for the additional load he carries. When the day is not too far spent, the hunters, hiding carefully their game, continue the chase. At home, the chamois is cut up, and the pieces salted or smoked; the skin is sold to make gloves or leathern breeches; and the horns are hung up as a trophy in the family. A middle-sized chamois weighs from fifty to seventy pounds, and, when in good case, yields as much as seven pounds of fat. Not unfre quently the best marksman is selected to lie in wait for the game, while his associates, leaving their rifles loaded by him, and acting the part of hounds, drive it towards the spot. Sometimes, when the passage is too narrow, a chamois, reduced to the last extremity, will rush headlong on the foe, whose only resource, to avoid the encounter, which, on the brink of precipices, must be fatal, is to lie down immediately, and let the frightened animal pass over him. There was once an instance of a herd of fourteen chamois which, being hard pressed, rushed down a precipice to certain death rather than be taken. It is wonderful to see them climb abrupt and naked rocks, and leap from one narrow cliff to another, the smallest projection serving them for a point of rest, upon which they alight, but only just to take another spring. Their agility made people believe formerly that they could support them-selves by means of their hooked horns. They have been known to take leaps of twenty-five feet down hill, over fields of snow.

Hunters, two or three in company, generally proceed without dogs. They carry a sharp hoe to cut steps in the ice, each his rifle, hooks to be fastened to his shoes, a mountain-stick with a piece of iron, and in his pouch a short spy-glass, barley cakes, cheese, and brandy made of gentian or cherries. Sleeping the first night at some of those upper chalets which are left open at all times, and always provided with a little dry wood for a fire, they The leader of the herd is always an old reach their hunting-grounds at day-light.female, never a male. She stands watching There, on some commanding situation, they when the others lie down, and rests when they

sent, confine ourselves to the evidence of Mr. | tremely filthy, that was at Halfway Tree, near my
Wildman, the proprietor of three estates, and
own house; I had occasion to commit a negro
of 640 slaves, respecting the extent and nature there, and she was reported to me to be in so bad
of the punishments inflicted in Jamaica. The
a state, I made a point of inspecting the gaol in
law referred to in his replies is still in force. consequence, and found it in a most filthy state,
The clause respecting punishment was included inquisition; they were actually tortured there;
and the punishments were very little short of the
in the Act of 1831.
the mode of flogging was to put a rope round each
were what the sailors call bowsed out with a tackle
wrist, and a rope round each ancle, and then they
and pullies.

your power in Jamaica at the time, as to punish-
"What do you conceive was the limitation of
ment of the slaves ?-If I had stuck to the law,
which is not usually the case, either one side or
the other, I might have given them thirty-nine
lashes with the whip; I punished him with a small
cat made of string with six tails to it.

are up at feed; listening to every sound, and
anxiously looking around. She often ascends
a fragment of rock, or heap of drifted snow,
for a wide field of observation, making a sort
of gentle hissing noise when she suspects any
danger; but when the sound rises to a sharper
note, the whole troop flies at once, like the
wind, to some more remote and higher part of
the mountain. The death of this old leader
is generally fatal to the herd. Their fondness
for salt makes them frequent salt springs and
salt marshes, where hunters lie in wait for
them. The latter practise also a very odd
ruse de guerre. Having observed the chamois
are apt to approach cattle on the pastures, and
graze near them, a hunter will crawl on all
fours towards cattle, with salt spread on his
back, to attract the cattle, and is immediately
surrounded and hid by them so completely,
that he finds no difficulty in advancing very-Decidedly; I was the sole judge when a man
"That you understood to be the law at that time?
near the chamois, and taking a sure aim. At should be punished, and to what extent, provided
other times a hunter, when discovered, will it was not beyond that; that was the nominal
drive his stick into the snow, and place his punishment I was restricted to by law; but per-
hat on the top of it; then, creeping away, go sons do go far beyond the law constantly.
round another way, while the game remains
intent on the same object, which it still sees
in the same place.-From Simond's Switzer-
land.

REVIEW.

"As you were permitted with respect to law,
might you have given to the extent of thirty-nine
lashes altogether if any thing displeased you, or
1 liked, for looking at me.
must it have been for some legal offence ?-Just as

"Your understanding, and from your conversation with other gentlemen, you believe their understanding of the state of the law to be that, for looking at you, a man might be punished with thirty-nine lashes?-That I put as an extreme case; it was perfectly arbitrary; and, if a slave did any thing to qffend his overseer or owner, he might do that.

"You understood that a man was not liable to
REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE OF be questioned for the exercise of punishment with-
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON THE EXTINC-in those limits?-Certainly; he was answerable
TION OF SLAVERY. London: Sherwood,
Gilbert, and Piper. 1833.

to no one."

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Here is a commentary on the law of Jamaica, which, if read by the people of England, harrow up their soul, and sting them, by the thought of the negro's wrong, to effect his speedy redemption.

One extract more, and we have done for the present. The following is from Mr. Wildman's evidence, and may serve to show us what the kindness is which the negroes are reported by the colonists to receive from their masters.

EVERY abolitionist in the kingdom should immediately obtain this volume. The multi-will farious and important information which it supplies establishes the general correctness of the view which anti-slavery writers have been accustomed to give of the immorality of the white, and the wretchedness of the black population of the West Indies. The safety of immediate emancipation, nay, more than this, the fearful convulsions which are hazarded by its delay, is also distinctly affirmed by numerous, intelligent, and disinterested observers. Accustomed as we have been to the examination of documents bearing on this question, we have never met with one which supplies so complete a vindication of our cause, or enables us so triumphantly to refute the unblushing falsehoods of our opponents. Let any person be thoroughly acquainted with this volume, and he need not fear the most subtle, talented, and unflinching of the colonial advocates.

"Did you make any complaint of this state of the workhouse in St. Ann's?-I did to the custos and to the parish generally.

"What was the result of that complaint?-The result was, that the system of the block and tackle was defended as being a humane practice, that it prevented their turning; but, when I went to examine the gaol, a negro was called to come and lie down, that I might see how it was done; a skin was put down on the gravel, he was laid upon the skin, and then this tackle was applied to him; and, though I was looking on, and several others at the time, a negro took hold of the rope to draw it up, the man gave a yell that quite made me start. "Was that from apprehension ?-From the actual pain."

APHORISMS.

As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers, and the sharpest thorns; as the heavens are sometimes fair and sometimes overcast, alternately tempestuous and serene: so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasures and with pains.BURTON.

and a generous strife in alternate acts of kindness; Friendship consists properly in mutual offices, but he who does a kindness to an ungrateful person, sets his seal to a flint, and sows his seed upon the sand upon the former he makes no impression, and from the latter he finds no production.—DR. SOUTH.

Advice, like snow, the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the

heart.-COLERIDGE.

The ideas as well as children of our youth "What are the punishments in use in the island often die before us; and our minds represent to of Jamaica now? They are very cruel ones. us those tombs to which we are approaching, "Will you state what they are?-The general where, though the brass and marble remain, yet system of flogging is to give them a certain number the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the of stripes with a long whip, which inflict a dread-imagery moulders away. The pictures drawn in ful laceration or a dreadful contusion; and then our minds are laid on in fading colours, and, if

they follow up that by a very severe flogging with
plant, with small leaves like a myrtle-leaf, and
ebony switches, the ebony being a very strong wiry
under every leaf a very sharp tough thorn, and
then, after that, they rub them with brine.

"In what part have you known that practised?
-I can speak of it as having been practised in
every part of the island.

ner.

The West Indians must bitterly repent their having so clamorously demanded the appoint- "To your own knowledge?-I never saw it ment of this Committee. They meant it for done; I could not have borne it; but I have seen evil, but God has over-ruled it for good. Thus the slaves who have complained of its having been it frequently happens that the very means done, and shown me their persons; and my own which vice employs for the accomplishment of strike them a number of times with one, and then people have complained most woefully of it; they its designs are rendered subservient to the in-throw that away and take another; also they punish terests of virtue. The reprint before us is pub- them in the bilboes in the most unmerciful manlished at a very cheap rate, and should be extensively and rapidly circulated. The evidence of Messrs. Taylor, Wildman, and Austin, in conjunction with that of the missionaries, Barry, Duncan, and Knibb, and of Admiral Fleming, will be found to supply a comprehensive, accurate, and heart-rending view of the state of the slave population. To this portion of the volume we would especially direct attention, though the colonial witnesses will be found, on a careful examination, to have materially served our cause.

We purpose extracting from the Report in successive numbers of our work; and, at pre

"That is a species of stocks?—Yes; there is an iron clamp goes round the foot, and it is put into a bar, so that they may have ten or a dozen on the same bar; they let them out for their work, and put them in again when that is over, and keep them for three weeks together.

"Can they recline at night?-Yes, they do
iron bar is along the bottom of it, when the foot is
recline; the bench is an inclined plane, and the
clamped on upon the iron bar, and the negro lies
back; the punishments in the workhouse also are
dreadful.

have never been in any but one, and that was ex-
"Is the state of the gaols good in general?-I

not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear.
LOCKE.

amusement of the soul when she is disencumbered
Dreams may be said to be the relaxation and
she has laid her charge asleep.-ADDISON.
of her machine; her sports and recreations when

The shortest way to be rich is not by enlarging our estate, but by contracting our desires..

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IMMEDIATE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY.

AT a Public Meeting of the Inhabitants of the

Borough of Leeds, convened, in the unavoidable absence of the Mayor, by the requisition of their Fellow

SLAVERY.

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Townsmen, and held in the Court-House, on Thursday,TLECT COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF COM

January 24th, 1833.

GEORGE WAILES, Esq. in the Chair.

IT WAS UNANIMOUSLY RESOLVED,

1. That the inhabitants of this borough have repeatedly expressed their sentiments upon the impolicy, injustice, and wickedness of Slavery; that those sentiments are confirmed and strengthened by an increasing acquaintance with the evils and miseries inevitable to such a state, and existing in all our colonial possessions, and which, having baffled every effort, however well meant and merciful, to extirpate or ameliorate them, decisively prove that Slavery never will be abolished by the Colonial Legislatures, and that it is the duty of the British Parliament and people to bring the system itself to an immediate termination.

That whilst we deplore that violation of the spirit and letter of our Constitution, of the law of nations, and the law of God, by which neurly 800,000 of the human family, and of our fellow-subjects, are to the present moment detained in thraldom, and that, too, in regions subject to the British Crown, and fostered by the protection and bounties of a people jealous and boasting of their freedom, we thus solemnly and publicly declare that we will connive at this system of tyranny and outrage no longer; that we demand its entire and inmediate extinction; that we claim for every slave within the sway of the British sceptre, and the oversight of the British Parliament, who is not disqualified by actual crimes against the well-being of society, his instant emancipation-protesting, as we do, that the liberty of the subject is unrighteously invaded so long as one slave is found within those limits.

That we therefore call upon the Legislature of our country to take this subject, before all others, into their serious consideration; that one of the first acts of a new Parliament may be the extinction of that worst and foulest of all wrongs upon human nature itself-the bondage of our fellow men in the British Slave Colonies; and this we urge with a full conviction that the transition to freedom will be attended with infinitely less danger to life and property than the continuance of Slavery; that the pro

Pisions requisite to the establishment of the magisterial

control, and of social order and subordination, will be rea dily supplied by the wisdom of Parliament, and will be found far less numerous and difficult than the timid or the interested may forebode.

Moved by the Rev. THOS. SCALES; seconded by Mr. T.

B. PEASE.

II. That an Address from this Meeting be presented to the Throne, most respectfully, but earnestly, soliciting his Majesty, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, in the exercise of his royal prerogative towards the Crown

Colonies and by his Royal Sanction to such a Bill as may

be passed by the two Houses of Parliament for the immediate Emancipation of the Slave Population in the Chartered Colonies, to restore to his humble but devoted and loyal subjects, who are now in bondage, the liberty of which they ought never to have been deprived.

Moved by Mr. ROBERT JOWITT; seconded by Mr. WM. WAILES.

III. That Petitions praying for the immediate Abolition of Slavery in all Crown and Chartered Colonies be addressed to both Houses of Parliament; and that, after they have received the signatures of the Inhabitants of the Borough, they be forwarded for presentation as early as possible after the opening of Parliament-that the following be the form of such petition, &c. :—

Moved by Mr. WM. WEST; seconded by the Rev.
JAMES ACWORTH.

[The Petitions were an echo of the first three Resolutions.]

IV. That the Address to the King be signed by the Chairman, on behalf of the Meeting, and transmitted to the Right Hon. the Lord High Chancellor, with a request that he will lay the Address before his Majesty. Moved by the Rev. R. W. HAMILTON; seconded by T. B. CHARLESWORTH.

V. That the Petitions be placed for signature in such parts of the town as the Committee may deem necessary. That the Right Hon. Earl Grey be requested to present the Petition to the House of Lords; and John Marshall, Jun. Esq. M. P. that to the Commons; and that T. B. Macauley, Esq. our other representative, and the Members for the West Riding, be requested to give it their most strenuous support. Moved by Mr. EDW. BAINES, Jun. ; seconded by the Rev. F. A. WEST.

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CURE OF NERVOUS FEVER.

To Mr. Edwards,

Sir,-Having been for the last six months in possession of good health, and, indeed, better health than ever I remember to have enjoyed previous to a dreadful attack which I experienced last November, of low nervous fever, I feel it my bounden duty, after returning thanks to Almighty God for my happy recovery, in gratitude for your kind attention, to make this acknowledgment of the very great benefit I received from the use of Mr. Morison's Liquid Vegetable Universal Medicine. My sister tells me I took the liquid, being so ill and weak at the time she sent for you as to be unable to take the pills, and you were sent for, in consequence of the medicine I had previously taken not giving me any relief. Indeed, I was so ill that I don't recollect what passed; but my sister tells me that I had nearly lost my hearing, and could only speak with great difficulty, and that, by your advice, the medicines were administered to me in very strong doses; and, in four days, such was the effect the medicine had on me, that my sister, and every one that saw me, became convinced of my speedy recovery, which very soon, by the aid of Morison's Medicines, was accomplished. It is, therefore, my wish that this may be made public, that the afflicted, in the worst of cases, may not despair. I beg to offer my best thanks to Mr. Morison for the invention of the Medicine, and am, Sir,

Your very obliged humble servant,
ANN CLARKE,

Hertford, September 3rd, 1832.

CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC. MORISON'S UNIVERSAL MEDICINES having superseded the use of almost all the Patent Medicines which the wholesale venders have foisted upon the credulity of the searchers after health, for so many years, the town druggists and chemists, not able to establish a fair fame on the invention of any plausible means of competition, have plunged into the mean expedient of paffing up a "Dr. Morrison" (observe the subterfuge of the double r), a being who never existed, as prescribing a "Vegetable Universal Pill, No. 1 and 2," for the express purpose (by means of this forged imposition upon the public), of deteriorating the estimation of the "UNIVERSAL MEDICINES" of the "BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH."

KNOW ALL MEN, then, that this attempted delusion must fall under the fact, that (however specious the pretence), none can be held genuine by the College but those which have "Morison's Universal Medicines" impressed upon the Government Stamp attached to each box and packet, to counterfeit which is felony by the laws of the land.

The "Vegetable Universal Medicines" are to be had at the College, New Road, King's Cross, London; at the Surrey Branch, 96, Great Surrey-street; Mr. Field's, 16, Airstreet, Quadrant; Mr. Chappell's, Royal Exchange; Mr. Walker's, Lamb's-conduit-passage, Red-lion-square; Mr. J. Loft's, Mile-end-road; Mr. Bennett's, Covent-gardenmarket; Mr. Haydon's, Fleur-de-lis-court, Norton-falgate; Mr. Haslet's, 147, Ratcliffe-highway; Messrs. Norbury's, Brentford; Mrs. Stepping, Clare-market; Messrs. Salmon, Little Bell-alley; Miss Varai's, 24, Lucas-street, Commercial-road; Mrs. Beech's, 7, Sloane-square, Chelsea; Mrs. Chapple's, Royal Library, Pall-mall; Mrs. Pippen's, 18, Wingrove-place, Clerkenwell; Miss C. Atkinson, 19, New Trinity-grounds, Deptford; Mr. Taylor, Hanwell; Mr. Kirtlam, 4, Bolingbroke-row, Walworth; Mr. Payne, 64, Jermyn-street; Mr. Howard, at Mr. Wood's, hair-dresser, Richmond; Mr. Meyar, 3, May's-buildings, Blackheath; Mr. Griffiths, Wood-wharf, Greenwich; Mr. Pitt, 1, Cornwall-road, Lambeth; Mr. J. Dobson, 35, Craven-street, Strand; Mr. Oliver, Bridge-street, Vauxhall; Mr. J. Monck, Bexley Heath; Mr. T. Stokes, 12, St. Ronan's, Deptford; Mr. Cowell, 22, Terrace, Pimlico; Mr. Parfitt, 96, Edgware-road; Mr. Hart, Portsmouth-place, Kennington-lane; Mr. Charlesworth, grocer, 124, Shoreditch; Mr. R. G. Bower, grocer, 22, Brick-lane, St. Luke's; Mr. S. J. Avila, pawnbroker, opposite the church, Hackney; Mr. T. Gardner, 95, Wood-street, Cheapside, and 9, Nortonfalgate; Mr. J. Williamson, 15, Seabright-place, Hackneyroad; Mr. J. Osborn, Wells-street, Hackney road, and Homerton; Mr. H. Cox, grocer, 16, Union-street, Bishopsgate-street; Mr. T. Walter, cheesemonger, 67, Hoxton Old Town; and at one agent's in every principal town in Great Britain, the Islands of Guernsey and Malta; and throughout the whole of the United States of America.

VI. That the following Gentlemen be a Committee of COUGHS of the most obstinate kind, whether J. S. Briggs, 1, Brunswick-place, Stoke Newington; Mr.

Management:

Mr. Robert Jowitt,

Mr. Newman Cash,

Mr. William Wailes,

Mr. G. K. Hirst, Rev. Thomas Scales, Rev. James Acworth, Mr. William West.

Mr. John P. Clapham, Mr. Anthony Titley, Moved by Mr. JOHN J. NEVINS; seconded by Mr. ROBERT PERRING.

VII. That the Petitions be placed for Signature at such Places as the Committee may appoint; and that the Resolutions, &c. be printed under their direction. Moved by the Rev. JOHN ANDERSON; seconded by Mr. J. P. CLAPHAM.

GEORGE WAILES, Chairman. VIII. That the very cordial thanks of the Meeting be

given to George Wailes, Esq. for his able and impartial

conduct in the chair.

Moved by Mr. M. T. SADLER; seconded by the Rev.
JOSEPH HOLMES.
ROBERT JOWITT.

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